Yearly Archives: 2007

Sprint Nextel’s new online community: a ‘fundamental change in culture’

In the spirit of freewheeling online wireless forums such as Howard Forums and SprintUsers.com, Sprint Nextel Corp. has started its own virtual community for...

Mobile heats up at GDC

A flurry of mobile gaming news is coming out of San Francisco in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference. Powerhouses and startups in the...

TDS cancels plans to buy 100% of U.S. Cellular

U.S. Cellular Corp.'s parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., is no longer considering making an offer to acquire the portion of the carrier's...

Reports: Palm evaluating strategic options

Treo maker Palm Inc. is considering strategic options ranging from acquisitions to a full-out sale of the company, according to media reports. The news...

MediaFLO gets trialed in Taiwan

Qualcomm Inc. announced that China Network Systems (CNS) and Taiwan Television Enterprise Ltd. (TTV) have signed an agreement to conduct a technical trial of...

Motorola works to block Icahn

Motorola Inc. does not plan to support billionaire investor Carl Icahn's plan to join the company's board, according to media reports.The handset vendor is...

Monday, March 5, 2007

Analyst Angle: When Telecom Galaxies Collide

Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

Spam takes on blue tint

Some attendees at last month's 3GSM World Congress in Spain got an unexpected come-on as they entered the show: a Bluetooth-transmitted inquiry asking if...

Leap shows strong growth

Leap Wireless International Inc. plans to offer CDMA2000 1x EV-DO service in its markets by the end of 2007, and expects to introduce new...

Handset vendors at risk : Squeeze from top may take victims

"Consolidation" is a well-worn phrase in business circles because it politely masks the fact that someone probably is going to get it in the...

Etc.

Sorry, wrong numberA Kentucky middle school teacher was arrested after trying to arrange to buy drugs via text message. The woman mistakenly sent text...

Icahn gives Motricity cash, credibility boost

Motricity Inc. once again added to its bank account, pocketing $50 million in equity funding from controversial investor Carl Icahn. Whether the cash will...

Mobile money: priceless: Citi, Obopay test wireless wallet

Obopay Inc. continued to gain ground in the mobile payment space, inking an impressive deal for a pilot program to allow Citi customers to...

Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA push pre-emption to Supreme Court

Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that reversed a Federal Communications Commission decision...

ASCAP’s ringtone squeeze play

The mobile-phone industry has jumped into a major Internet music rate case in a New York federal court. The outcome could determine whether cellular...

Bad cake

What is it about the wireless industry that causes everyone outside the space to think that they can have their cake and eat it...

House in-building contract up for re-bid

The U.S. House of Representatives canceled MobileAccess Networks' in-building wireless license and add-on business to improve cellphone coverage in the House because of concerns...

Mozes snags $5M in funding

Mobile marketing startup Mozes Inc. picked up $5 million in a first round of funding from Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.Mozes'...

Snoop Dogg: from gangsta rap to laying MVNO tracks

Snoop Dogg took the music world by storm in late 1992 when he helped propel gangsta rap to the most commercially successful subgenre of...

Price-fixing case could impact wireless distribution channels

The cellphone industry, the Bush administration and others are urging the Supreme Court to abandon a century-old antitrust standard in favor of one that...

U.S. Cellular justifies plan not to use DO

U.S. Cellular Corp. executives told analysts that they continue to be skeptical about the value of upgrading their CDMA 1x RTT network to EV-DO,...

Sprint Nextel’s bumpy ride continues as T-Mobile USA gains parental pride

Sprint Nextel Corp. confirmed its dismal fourth-quarter customer numbers, which reflected an increasingly schizophrenic performance: reasonably healthy performance of its CDMA offerings, dragged down...

Executive Interview: D.P. Venkatesh

The mobile handset has become something of a looking glass in Wonderland. And mPortal Inc. was founded in 2000 to help clients-network operators, mobile...

Mobile TV space draws new entrants, contrasting models

California is sprinkled with television studios, and while many of the traditional Hollywood studios already have or are in the process of creating separate...
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